In a noncooperative pegged situation, when the home country devalues in response to an external shock the:

A) foreign nation will also devalue, endangering the peg.
B) home country suffers the entire burden.
C) resulting depreciation causes a large shift in demand from the foreign nation to the home country, thereby exporting the recession to the foreign nation.
D) nations agree to switch their peg to the U.S. dollar.

Ans: C) resulting depreciation causes a large shift in demand from the foreign nation to the home country, thereby exporting the recession to the foreign nation.

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